BUCK, Clayton Douglass, (great-grandnephew of John M. Clayton),
a Senator from Delaware; born at Buena Vista, the family estate,
in New Castle County, Del., March 21, 1890; was graduated from Friends School,
Wilmington, Del., and for two years attended the University of Pennsylvania
Engineering School at Philadelphia; engaged in road building and engineering
work in Delaware; private, U.S. Army 1917-1919; chief engineer of the Delaware
State Highway Department 1922-1929; Governor of Delaware 1929-1937; engaged in
the banking business; member of the Republican National Committee 1930-1937;
elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1942 and served from
January 3, 1943, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in
1948; chairman, Committee on the District of Columbia (Eightieth Congress);
resumed the banking business; tax commissioner of Delaware 1953-1957; was a
resident of Buena Vista, New Castle County, Del., until his death January 27,
1965; interment in family plot in Immanuel Episcopal Church Grounds, New
Castle, Del.